I hope you're being sarcastic. He left the administration in the most graceful way he could, and preserved most of his image which is pretty impressive, considering the crap he was forced to argue for. I think this is a huge testament to the man's integrity and reputation.
If I see Powell, McCain, or Guiliani on the 2008 republican ticket, I would vote for any of them in a heartbeat.
The moderate/liberal republicans seem to be the most effective in office while still preserving a sense of honesty and integrity. Even though I'm somewhat liberal, I absolutely detest the Democratic party in its current state. Moderate republicans have the bargining power to allow important legislation to get passed, whereas a democratic president in an overwhelmingly conservative senate will be completely ineffective
Personally, I think that PS is beginning to show its age, and that something with a more elegant UI and a lightweight codebase will take off and surpass photoshop in the next few years. For a start, Adobe could start using newer versions of the OS toolkits on Windows and Mac. Photoshop is one of the only remaining Carbon applications out there.
After 10-15 years of existance, most programs begin to show their age. Although Photoshop has come a long way, I still feel like I'm using the same program that was out there 10 years ago with a few (okay, a lot) extras tacked on to it. It's a very bittersweet feeling that "This is great, but it could also be a lot better"
Apple's aperture is a step in the right direction except for the fact that it's slow as hell and not cross-platform.
The Gimp isn't great. A lot of it's held back by GTK which doesn't really seem well-supported on any platform (partly because it was written for X windows. eck.) I say that the developers cut their losses, and start over rewriting it with using the lessons learned while writing the old codebase. They can crossport the tricky image processing stuff, but everything else needs to go. If it hasn't gained acceptance by now, I think the problems are a lot deeper than surface-level.
Many universities have disrtibution deals with Dell/IBM where the student buys a laptop directly from the school at a discounted price and gets a pre-confiugred computer and an on-site warranty that extends for the entire time they are in the school.
As such, the university pre-configures the computer, and because it's in their best interest to prevent viruses and worms from entering their network, virtually all choose Firefox.
Believe me. Out of any demographic, College students probably represent the biggest portion of firefox's userbase.
If that's true, they could be held guilty for libel.
Given the US political system, I think that if it were true and able to be proven in a court of law, the subjects of the "profane articles" would have legally retalliated by this point...
Homosexuality doesn't hurt anybody except arguably for those who are participating in it, and even then, 'harm' is a very vague term, and I doubt any of them see it that way.
As long as your beliefs don't infringe upon others, I don't see how they can be harmful. As long as everyone's tolerant, it should be a win-win situation. Why is this so hard for people to grasp?
although funny and not directly offensive, your post does enforce certain stereotypes that the GLBT community is trying to shed.
basically, it's the ones you notice that make you build these stereotypes.... which is unfortunate. how are you going to form a stereotype based upon people who blend almost perfectly into society? And I would say that this probably accounts for about three quarters of the GLBT community....
There's a difference between a group that encourages inclusion and one that encourages exclusion.
A whites-only group would be an exclusive (and racist) group, whereas the GLBT-friendly group being described would encourage inclusion, and probably wouldn't discriminate against straight people who simply want to play in an environment as free from bigotry as possible.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with sharing a common bond.
There's a small demand compared to the original XBox.
There's an even smaller supply, hence the shortages. Most large chain stores were only getting 10-20 units per shipment. They're going to sell out regardless of demand. The only true way to gauge demand at this point is to look at the number of people who want one from the people you know.
Most of my friends were in line to buy the original xbox the week it came out. They have little or no interest in the 360, and I would say that out of my friends, more of them are planning on dropping $100 or so on ebay to buy a used N64 to play Goldeneye, Mario Kart, and Super Smash Bros. I think that split-screen gaming reached its peak on the N64.
Small (but not pathetic) demand. Tiny (and certainly pathetic) supply. Not a good combination.
I hope you folks got a good price for it. It was a marvelous service while it lasted (the APIs were particularly fun to work with). It's a shame Y! never launched something equivalent......
I agree with you 100%. Online gaming is a haven for homophobia. The amount of gay-bashing that goes on in in-game chats would be considered intolerable in even the most conservative circles in the real world.
A few years back, a small online FPS game I used to play decided to extend its anti-biogtry policy to protect against gay-bashing. The backlash was severe, and many players left in protest after being repatedly kicked from the game for using offensive language.
Fortunately, the developer running the game stuck with it despite the many rumors circulated that he was gay -- I can't help but admire the fact that he never bothered to defend himself against the rumors. I think he eventually responded in an interview something to the extent of "No, I am not, but I don't feel the need to defend myself against these rumors because I find nothing offensive about it"
Gamers can be so immature. This is probably the biggest reason I no longer game online. These people give the impresion of being 13 years old, and you later learn that they're actually grown adults. Pathetic.
is there still any place in winxp where you can actually do that from a command line? I thought the best way would be to format from thw XP installer's partition utility
(just curious. slow night, and your comment sparked my interest)
and I expect a lot of that is the cost of launching a new console.
I expect that a lot of that is the cost of launching a new console unsuccessfully.
The demand for the 360 seems tiny compared to the demand for the original xbox not to mention all the wasted money on the hype microsoft built up for the 360 which was completely destroyed by the fact that there wasn't enough of them to supply what little demand they did have.
The dreamcast had a more successful launch than the 360. I have a pretty good feeling that the 360 is going to be the Sega Saturn of this generation of consoles (which as a whole I also think will fizzle compared to the last. My money's on the Nintendo Revolution for being the most likely to succeed this time around unless Microsoft scrapes Halo 3 together quickly (the brand loyalty gamers have to halo is astonishing. halo 3 could be complete crap, and it would sell millions of copies in the first week)
Somehow, I think that the $31,000 tuition figure is out of date by quite a few years.
I go to a public school, and it's almost that much. Most of the privates are somewhere in the high 40s. The cost of education in America today is appaling especially if you're from a state that lacks a decent higher-education system.
The biggest part of the appeal to flash is that it's a mature product, and is almost universally available.
Paying a couple hundred bucks for an authoring program, although steep at first isn't so bad when you consider that the player is free and that macromedia/adobe doesn't charge for distribution rights.
If you haven't noticed lately, a big trend has been for site-owners to encapulate audio and video into their sites using flash. I for one welcome this, because it's one less extraneous codec or plug-in I've got to install. It's attractive because everybody has it. It's also a piece of cake to develop for, and content-authors love it because they can match the media player's controls to their site with minimal effort.
Sure, I'd like to see an open standard step in and replace flash, but until we get something out there that's as friendly to content authors and users, I just think that more competing standards are going to hurt things.
It's the same reason apple never got really big: they used proprietary hardware and therefore limited the amount of users that could use their OS.
I call bullshit. The apple ][ series was easily one of the most open hardware platforms ever created in the history of modern computing. Although it was indeed a commerical success (and gave apple the financial resources to develop the macintosh), the early IBM PCs outsold it by a fairly large margin due to the Business World's loyalty to IBM
The original models shipped with a complete hardware schematic and a source code printout of the ROM code (BIOS).
I know of about half a dozen of these machines still in use today (over 20 years old!). They were easily the best personal computers ever manufactured.
does anyone here remember muse.net, the failed startup venture started by a bunch of the original winamp guys? it seems like this is a more expensive, less open version of that....
I still wish it took off. would have been a very convenient service...
Believe me. PPC emulation on an x86 was no easy feat for apple, and has been considered the holy grail of CPU emulation for the past 10 or so years.
I'm vague on the details (someone fill me in here...), but there are a few intrinsically difficult obstacles to emulating a powerpc on an x86 at a realistic speed. Until PearPC (about a year ago), nobody could properly execute a ppc binary on an x86 machine unless they wanted to run it around 1/100 of its intended speed.
From what I recall, apple purchased the technology behind rosetta from a small firm. It's really quite an accomplishment, and I only hope that Intel keeps its act together. I can't say that I fully approve of intel's engineering decisions over the past 5 or so years (the Pentium M being the sole exception). I wouldn't be surprised at all if AMD takes the hint and radically increases production capacity to lure apple into using their chips. I also wouldn't be surprised at all if the first-generation x86 xServes used AMD server chips. They're really that much superior to anything intel's got.
Please stop it with the name-dropping. It's irritating and insulting. The article has plenty of merit on its own, and is indeed a fine bit of information to put on slashdot.
However, the fact that it was started by two MIT alum is completely irrelevant. If this was the direct result of research being done by a group of MIT students or professors, it might be appropriate to place a reference to MIT in the blurb (but probably not the title). We're not an MIT related publication, as hard as that may be to believe (Wired is also a terrible offender of this).
It reminds me of my psychology textbook, which would always drop the name of the institution responsible for a certain piece of research: "Harvard Professor Shelly cline worked with Yale Psychologist Howard Walken to refine Pavlov's theory....." and so on, provided that the institution was in the Ivy League. Flipping through the pages, I found a few references to only Ivy Leavue Universities and overseas institutions (specifically Cambridge and Harvard).
Now, I'm not going to deny that a great deal of mighty fine research comes out of MIT and the Ivy League, but I'm also going to remind everyone here that other institutions also churn out a great amount of significant research, and they are hardly ever credited for it. My tiny public liberal arts school even churns out a fair bit of good research.
So, slashdot. Please stop shamelessly plugging these name-brand schools. They've done nothing wrong, but by publicizing them in such a way, you're dragging down the other 99% of the educational system that the rest of us have to utilize.
(To be fair, I did RTFA, and sideadvisor seems genuinely cool)
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Do you really think that could happen during this administration?
I hope you're being sarcastic. He left the administration in the most graceful way he could, and preserved most of his image which is pretty impressive, considering the crap he was forced to argue for. I think this is a huge testament to the man's integrity and reputation.
If I see Powell, McCain, or Guiliani on the 2008 republican ticket, I would vote for any of them in a heartbeat.
The moderate/liberal republicans seem to be the most effective in office while still preserving a sense of honesty and integrity. Even though I'm somewhat liberal, I absolutely detest the Democratic party in its current state. Moderate republicans have the bargining power to allow important legislation to get passed, whereas a democratic president in an overwhelmingly conservative senate will be completely ineffective
How long before we see a photoshop killer?
Personally, I think that PS is beginning to show its age, and that something with a more elegant UI and a lightweight codebase will take off and surpass photoshop in the next few years. For a start, Adobe could start using newer versions of the OS toolkits on Windows and Mac. Photoshop is one of the only remaining Carbon applications out there.
After 10-15 years of existance, most programs begin to show their age. Although Photoshop has come a long way, I still feel like I'm using the same program that was out there 10 years ago with a few (okay, a lot) extras tacked on to it. It's a very bittersweet feeling that "This is great, but it could also be a lot better"
Apple's aperture is a step in the right direction except for the fact that it's slow as hell and not cross-platform.
The Gimp isn't great. A lot of it's held back by GTK which doesn't really seem well-supported on any platform (partly because it was written for X windows. eck.) I say that the developers cut their losses, and start over rewriting it with using the lessons learned while writing the old codebase. They can crossport the tricky image processing stuff, but everything else needs to go. If it hasn't gained acceptance by now, I think the problems are a lot deeper than surface-level.
mmm.
I'm actually surprised that given purdue's huge engineering population, this came out of the physics department instead...
And yeah. Being a physics major is no fun...
Many universities have disrtibution deals with Dell/IBM where the student buys a laptop directly from the school at a discounted price and gets a pre-confiugred computer and an on-site warranty that extends for the entire time they are in the school.
As such, the university pre-configures the computer, and because it's in their best interest to prevent viruses and worms from entering their network, virtually all choose Firefox.
Believe me. Out of any demographic, College students probably represent the biggest portion of firefox's userbase.
If that's true, they could be held guilty for libel.
Given the US political system, I think that if it were true and able to be proven in a court of law, the subjects of the "profane articles" would have legally retalliated by this point...
tag was invented....
Analogy Police. Please come with me.
Slavery infringes upon the rights of others.
Homosexuality doesn't hurt anybody except arguably for those who are participating in it, and even then, 'harm' is a very vague term, and I doubt any of them see it that way.
As long as your beliefs don't infringe upon others, I don't see how they can be harmful. As long as everyone's tolerant, it should be a win-win situation. Why is this so hard for people to grasp?
And if you were principal of that middle school and gave that reason to not let a group form, you'd be sued off your ass and would probably be fired.
Of course, if you're in an ultra-conservative community, you'd probably be commended. which is unfortunate....
although funny and not directly offensive, your post does enforce certain stereotypes that the GLBT community is trying to shed.
basically, it's the ones you notice that make you build these stereotypes.... which is unfortunate. how are you going to form a stereotype based upon people who blend almost perfectly into society? And I would say that this probably accounts for about three quarters of the GLBT community....
There's a difference between a group that encourages inclusion and one that encourages exclusion.
A whites-only group would be an exclusive (and racist) group, whereas the GLBT-friendly group being described would encourage inclusion, and probably wouldn't discriminate against straight people who simply want to play in an environment as free from bigotry as possible.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with sharing a common bond.
My mind always rearranges the letters to read BLT (Bacon-Lettuce-Tomato. A type of sandwich quite popular in America)
:-)
In my mind, this can only serve to increase tolerance
There's a small demand compared to the original XBox.
There's an even smaller supply, hence the shortages. Most large chain stores were only getting 10-20 units per shipment. They're going to sell out regardless of demand. The only true way to gauge demand at this point is to look at the number of people who want one from the people you know.
Most of my friends were in line to buy the original xbox the week it came out. They have little or no interest in the 360, and I would say that out of my friends, more of them are planning on dropping $100 or so on ebay to buy a used N64 to play Goldeneye, Mario Kart, and Super Smash Bros. I think that split-screen gaming reached its peak on the N64.
Small (but not pathetic) demand. Tiny (and certainly pathetic) supply. Not a good combination.
Haha. My bad.
;-)
Oxford is the one! not sure how I made that mistake..... come to think of it, maybe they are superior given my profound lack of any common sense
ah, wow. Didn't expect you to reply to this :-)
I hope you folks got a good price for it. It was a marvelous service while it lasted (the APIs were particularly fun to work with). It's a shame Y! never launched something equivalent......
I agree with you 100%. Online gaming is a haven for homophobia. The amount of gay-bashing that goes on in in-game chats would be considered intolerable in even the most conservative circles in the real world.
A few years back, a small online FPS game I used to play decided to extend its anti-biogtry policy to protect against gay-bashing. The backlash was severe, and many players left in protest after being repatedly kicked from the game for using offensive language.
Fortunately, the developer running the game stuck with it despite the many rumors circulated that he was gay -- I can't help but admire the fact that he never bothered to defend himself against the rumors. I think he eventually responded in an interview something to the extent of "No, I am not, but I don't feel the need to defend myself against these rumors because I find nothing offensive about it"
Gamers can be so immature. This is probably the biggest reason I no longer game online. These people give the impresion of being 13 years old, and you later learn that they're actually grown adults. Pathetic.
is there still any place in winxp where you can actually do that from a command line? I thought the best way would be to format from thw XP installer's partition utility
(just curious. slow night, and your comment sparked my interest)
and I expect a lot of that is the cost of launching a new console.
I expect that a lot of that is the cost of launching a new console unsuccessfully.
The demand for the 360 seems tiny compared to the demand for the original xbox not to mention all the wasted money on the hype microsoft built up for the 360 which was completely destroyed by the fact that there wasn't enough of them to supply what little demand they did have.
The dreamcast had a more successful launch than the 360. I have a pretty good feeling that the 360 is going to be the Sega Saturn of this generation of consoles (which as a whole I also think will fizzle compared to the last. My money's on the Nintendo Revolution for being the most likely to succeed this time around unless Microsoft scrapes Halo 3 together quickly (the brand loyalty gamers have to halo is astonishing. halo 3 could be complete crap, and it would sell millions of copies in the first week)
this mission is perfect for our expertise! we've gotten quite good at sending huge chunks of metal hurtling twoard the surface of mars...
(with our luck, we'll miss completely and end up blowing up titan or europa and killing whatever life may reside there)
Somehow, I think that the $31,000 tuition figure is out of date by quite a few years.
I go to a public school, and it's almost that much. Most of the privates are somewhere in the high 40s. The cost of education in America today is appaling especially if you're from a state that lacks a decent higher-education system.
This simply isn't going to happen.
The biggest part of the appeal to flash is that it's a mature product, and is almost universally available.
Paying a couple hundred bucks for an authoring program, although steep at first isn't so bad when you consider that the player is free and that macromedia/adobe doesn't charge for distribution rights.
If you haven't noticed lately, a big trend has been for site-owners to encapulate audio and video into their sites using flash. I for one welcome this, because it's one less extraneous codec or plug-in I've got to install. It's attractive because everybody has it. It's also a piece of cake to develop for, and content-authors love it because they can match the media player's controls to their site with minimal effort.
Sure, I'd like to see an open standard step in and replace flash, but until we get something out there that's as friendly to content authors and users, I just think that more competing standards are going to hurt things.
It's the same reason apple never got really big: they used proprietary hardware and therefore limited the amount of users that could use their OS.
I call bullshit. The apple ][ series was easily one of the most open hardware platforms ever created in the history of modern computing. Although it was indeed a commerical success (and gave apple the financial resources to develop the macintosh), the early IBM PCs outsold it by a fairly large margin due to the Business World's loyalty to IBM
The original models shipped with a complete hardware schematic and a source code printout of the ROM code (BIOS).
I know of about half a dozen of these machines still in use today (over 20 years old!). They were easily the best personal computers ever manufactured.
does anyone here remember muse.net, the failed startup venture started by a bunch of the original winamp guys? it seems like this is a more expensive, less open version of that....
I still wish it took off. would have been a very convenient service...
Believe me. PPC emulation on an x86 was no easy feat for apple, and has been considered the holy grail of CPU emulation for the past 10 or so years.
I'm vague on the details (someone fill me in here...), but there are a few intrinsically difficult obstacles to emulating a powerpc on an x86 at a realistic speed. Until PearPC (about a year ago), nobody could properly execute a ppc binary on an x86 machine unless they wanted to run it around 1/100 of its intended speed.
From what I recall, apple purchased the technology behind rosetta from a small firm. It's really quite an accomplishment, and I only hope that Intel keeps its act together. I can't say that I fully approve of intel's engineering decisions over the past 5 or so years (the Pentium M being the sole exception). I wouldn't be surprised at all if AMD takes the hint and radically increases production capacity to lure apple into using their chips. I also wouldn't be surprised at all if the first-generation x86 xServes used AMD server chips. They're really that much superior to anything intel's got.
An open letter to slashdot:
Please stop it with the name-dropping. It's irritating and insulting. The article has plenty of merit on its own, and is indeed a fine bit of information to put on slashdot.
However, the fact that it was started by two MIT alum is completely irrelevant. If this was the direct result of research being done by a group of MIT students or professors, it might be appropriate to place a reference to MIT in the blurb (but probably not the title). We're not an MIT related publication, as hard as that may be to believe (Wired is also a terrible offender of this).
It reminds me of my psychology textbook, which would always drop the name of the institution responsible for a certain piece of research: "Harvard Professor Shelly cline worked with Yale Psychologist Howard Walken to refine Pavlov's theory....." and so on, provided that the institution was in the Ivy League. Flipping through the pages, I found a few references to only Ivy Leavue Universities and overseas institutions (specifically Cambridge and Harvard).
Now, I'm not going to deny that a great deal of mighty fine research comes out of MIT and the Ivy League, but I'm also going to remind everyone here that other institutions also churn out a great amount of significant research, and they are hardly ever credited for it. My tiny public liberal arts school even churns out a fair bit of good research.
So, slashdot. Please stop shamelessly plugging these name-brand schools. They've done nothing wrong, but by publicizing them in such a way, you're dragging down the other 99% of the educational system that the rest of us have to utilize.
(To be fair, I did RTFA, and sideadvisor seems genuinely cool)